This doesn't bother me as much since we got a great Savage-Flair feud over Elizabeth, culminating in their Wrestlemania 8 match.

Can he really be compared to Axl though?  Austin was the guy in the WWE from 1997-2002.  After that he was around for a year with some on air role.  Axl was basically MIA from 1994-2001.  Personally, I'm not sure I want to see Austin wrestle, didn't he have major surgeries on both knees and his neck too?  He changed his wrestling style too from a technical aspect to favoring a brawling style.

I think the Nwo in WWE angle was pretty much doomed to failure.  Hogan always has some sort of issue with McMahon.  Hall has substance abuse issues.  Nash can't stay healthy enough to be reliable.  The only interesting thing that came out of that was the Hogan face turn in his match with the Rock at Wrestlemanina.

See this is what frustrates me about McMahon, he makes great business decisions.  However, when it comes to the actual storylines and stuff sometimes he fails and FAILS miserably.  There was the entire Katie Vick angle.  The angle last year where he blew himself up in the limo is another one.  The entire booking of John Cena where he is seen as a current day Hogan is laughable considering half the fan base HATES him.  Although, I'm wondering how much of this I should be blaming on Stephanie Mcmahon-Helmsley since she's been head booker since 2002 I think.  IMO they should give those powers to Shane McMahon he seems to have a better grasp on what the audience actually wants.

I think Warrior was just difficult to deal with and a general pain in the ass.  He returned at WM 8 and was scheduled to be in the main event at Survivor Series in the tag team match with Flair and Razor Ramon vs Randy Savage and himself.  He left like a month before the event.  Mcmahon was indicted in summer of 1993.  The changing of the guard really shouldn't be that suprising.  Hogan, Savage and Flair were all old, even though they left on separate issues.  Hogan-ego issues with WM.  Flair, I think he was unhappy and wanted to go back to WCW.  Savage--I'm not sure why he left.  I do think the fact that WCW had emerged as a player in this does account for some of the changes.  They signed Rick Rude and Jake the Snake in 1992 I think.  As far as Mr. Perfect goes, he was battling a persistent back problem that limited his in ring involvement.  I think  he had a high insurance premium which would have benefited him if he didn't wrestle.  The 1992-1993 upheaval hit its nadir when they had Hogan run in and win the WWF title in a ludicrous fashion at WM IX.  That was a horrible PPV as well.  Luckily Hogan left later that year.  The significant point of the change of 1992-1993 was the rise of the smaller wrestler.  Hart (Owen and Bret), Michaels and Razor (to the some extent) weren't the big well sculped guys favored by Vinnie Mac.  They had great work rates (Razor wasn't a full on drunk at this point, that would come later) and could go.  Didn't Sean Waltman aka 123 kid breakout as a star at this point too?  Unfortunately, Vince's big man fetish didn't totally go away--Giant Gonzales anyone?  If were looking at Spring 1993, does the fact that Monday Night Raw debuted during this time factor in here at all?  Anyway this is an interesting discussion that I hope continues.  I first started watching WWF during this period.  So this is a trip down memory lane for me too.

Yup.  He had all this time to take care of this stuff and didn't do it.  It doesn't make much sense financially to rerelease CD with only alternate covers.  I'm not sure how many diehards will buy that.  I will only buy a rereleased CD if there is new material--new tracks or old demos of CD songs.

I think NR is slightly overrated.  If you've ever heard the demo, the last two minutes of the song kind of wander. Luckily, the slash solos help pull it together and turn it from ok song to good song.  I get what war is saying as some of the synthesizer stuff can get kind of annoying whereas with TIL you can actually feel the raw emotions from Axl's vocals.

Just out of curiosity, do you ever see Axl reuniting with original Gnr for purely monetary reasons?  Let's say at some point in the future he runs low on cash.  Now albums don't make money anymore.  So he's left with the tour option.  Nu Guns is not profitable as a touring act in the US.  Would he just reunite for a cash grab money tour?  Or would that go against his principles.  I think he might be faced with this decision a lot sooner than some of you might think.